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Bourke, J.G. Scatalogic Rites of All Nations. A Dissertation upon the Employment of Excrementitious Remedial Agents in Religion, Therapeutics, Divination, Witchcraft, Love-Philters, etc., in all Parts of the Globe. Based upon Original Notes and Personal Observation, and upon Compilation from over One Thousand Authorities. Washington, W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1891, X,(2),496p., orig. giltlettered cl., t.e.g. - With bookplate of Gerrit Komrij on upper pastedown. Binding a few rubbed spots at extremities. Good/ fine copy. = Rare, "not for general perusal" (printed on title).

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Collofino (= J. Feinhals). Non olet oder Die heiteren Tischgespräche des Collofino über den Orbis Cacatus (...). Cologne, privately printed, 1939, XXXVII,(3),1102,(2)p., (full-p.) ills., orig. clothbacked boards. - Owner's presentation entry on first free endpaper. = With pasted-in manuscript letter in Latin, probably by the author. Rare and rich source of scatological information, published in a small number of copies only and written by an interesting man: Josef Feinhals (1867-1947) was a patron of the arts, a manufacturer of cigars and cigarettes as well as a writer and friend of Hermann Hesse. Not in Hayn/ Gotendorff.

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Collofino (= J. Feinhals). Non olet oder Die heiteren Tischgespräche des Collofino über den Orbis Cacatus (...). Cologne, privately printed, 1939, XXXVII,(3),1102,(2)p., (full-p.) ills., orig. clothbacked boards. - Bookplate of Gerrit Komrij on upper pastedown. Cloth at spine-ends cut sl. short. = With the original prospectus loosely inserted. Rare and rich source of scatological information, published in a small number of copies only and written by an interesting man: Josef Feinhals (1867-1947) was a patron of the arts, a manufacturer of cigars and cigarettes as well as a writer and friend of Hermann Hesse. Not in Hayn/ Gotendorff.

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Jack the Piper or the Pleasant-Pastime of a Fryar and Boy; Containing-; The Witty Adventures betwixt a Fryar and Boy, in relation to his Step-Mother; whom he fairly fitted for her unmerciful cruelty. New York, D.G. Dunn, January 1831, 2nd ed., 23p., sm. woodcut title-vignette, without wr., sm. 8vo. - Formerly loose, newly stitched on the wrong (right) side of the page; foxed and frayed. = Very rare. Poem on flatulence and the Piper's powers to make people publicly embarrass themselves, in order to get back at his evil stepmother.